Eden in the Altai by Geoffrey Ashe

Author:Geoffrey Ashe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ancient Mysteries
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Jews who extolled the hill of Zion took note of Isaiah’s prophecy that it would rise above all others and become Earth’s highest point. Cryptically, however, some rabbis claimed that it already had that distinction.7 On the face of it the claim was absurd. Zion is no Everest. It has been argued that they pictured the landmass as convex, a dome rather than a disk. They may have pictured it so, but the explanation does not convince. Seen from Jerusalem, the nearby Mount of Olives is visibly higher.

A subtler notion was present here, whether or not the rabbis knew what it was—one of a number of strange things that were nearly edited out of scripture, but not quite. Jerusalem’s Zion with the temple on it was the mountain of God, but there was another, vaster mountain of God, and the two were mystically identified, as Enlil’s temple in Nippur was identified with his Mountain of Heaven and Earth. Zion, let us say, bilocated. In the Bible, orthodox views have prevailed and the emphasis is nearly always on Jerusalem. But traces of the other mountain remain, in a psalm, in two of the major prophets, and in the tradition of Eden.

Psalm 48 begins:

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